An object-oriented model to support healthcare facility information management

Facility management within healthcare is required to ensure that complex systems are maintained and operational while causing minimum interruption to clinical activities and maintaining patient safety. Their tasks are complicated by fragmented and sometimes incomplete information. To help facility m...

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Published in:Automation in construction 2013-05, Vol.31, p.281-291
Main Authors: Lucas, Jason, Bulbul, Tanyel, Thabet, Walid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Buildings
Buildings. Public works
Computation methods. Tables. Charts
Exact sciences and technology
Facility management
Health and community facilities
Health care
Healthcare
Information management
Lifecycle
Object oriented
Object-oriented programming
Patients
Product model
Product models
Safety
Structural analysis. Stresses
Types of buildings
Unified Modeling Language
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Summary:Facility management within healthcare is required to ensure that complex systems are maintained and operational while causing minimum interruption to clinical activities and maintaining patient safety. Their tasks are complicated by fragmented and sometimes incomplete information. To help facility managers better manage lifecycle information pertinent to managing the facility and responding to facility related patient safety events, an object oriented product model is proposed in the context of developing a healthcare facility information management framework. The product model is developed as a result of various case analyses that were conducted using Unified Modeling Language (UML) Use Cases to examine information needs for existing healthcare facility maintenance operations. The resulting classification system and its uses to respond to patient safety events are discussed in this paper. ► Product model to support facility information management in healthcare facilities ► Case analysis used to identify information is needed to support event response. ► Product model tested with literature-based case study
ISSN:0926-5805
1872-7891
DOI:10.1016/j.autcon.2012.12.014